Yoshie Kris – Is ART Inclusive?

Portrait Kris Yoshie, Japann

PORTJOURNEY’S EAT-ART-TALK #02

Presentation/practice report &
Artist Dinner

Wednesday on 04.09.2024, 18.00
Hycp Veddel Space,
Sieldeich 36, 20539 Hamburg

A 7 SEEDS Project!

Meet, discuss, and research with the artist, arts producer, founder,
and artistic director of the slow label from Tokyo/Japan in Hamburg
on 7 SEEDS – #4.

SEED NO. IV.
DIVERSITY, OPEN INCLUSION AND
SELF-DETERMINATION



Is diversity a fashion? Can art by people with unique talents be seen as art? Should we talk about art by people with disabilities? Is there accessibility in art? Is the legend of artists exclusive? Am I also crazy if I make art? Who owns the right to self-image? Should artists have all image rights in the workshop? What art is visible and why? Should there be museums for
diverse, inclusive art? Does art hinder us? Is art emancipatory?

At the end of August 2024, Yoshie Kris will research approaches to inclusion in art and culture in Hamburg. Her findings will lead to an exchange with projects in Italy, Schottland, and Germany in 2025/26

She will present her long experiences in this field in Hamburg and invite us to an artist dinner. Dates will follow soon.

Kris has been interested in Peace Activism since childhood, she works on the theme of ‘Diversity and Harmony’, traveling diverse worlds, connecting people from different cultures and creating new values through Collaboration and Dialogue. Her borderless approach crosses Arts, Design, Craft and Entertainment to develop project-based work with open-mindedness.

Since 2008, she has been engaged in the creation of Social Entertainment Projects involving citizens from communities of different backgrounds and ideologies. In response to the issue of community division, she has
developed a methodology for the installation of shared, successful experiences of overcoming community division in the everyday lives of participants.

In 2010, after being diagnosed with osteosarcoma, she got involved in Disability Advocacy and founded the non-profit organization SLOW LABEL.



From 2014 to 2020, she produced the Yokohama Paratriennale, an international contemporary art festival with the city of Yokohama and SPIRAL / Wacoal Art Center, improving accessibility in creative environments for people with disabilities and developing new specialists called Access Coordinators and Accompanists. Since 2017, she has produced the Japanese first Social Circus Company ‘SLOW CIRCUS’, supported by Cirque du Soleil.

In the Tokyo2020 Paralympics Opening Ceremony, she fully supervised the show from a DEI perspective, including concept development, choreography, casting, rehearsal management, and audio-visual guide for spectators as Stage Advisor.

With the kind support of the
Hamburg Department of Culture and Media
and the District Hamburg Mitte

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